Interesting. I ran into the RAM problem only attempting to do an FTP
install. At work, I've set up a 32MB box to act as a newsletter
server. While it's running 7.2 now due to 8.0's lack of the Sympa
package (nobody say anything about the Contribs package, I already tried
that), I did install 8.0 on it originally from a CD-ROM without any
problems. The only thing it asked was that I let it format and begin
using the swap partition immediately instead of after the install was
done.
David Joham wrote:
>
> No, the FTP install didn't want to work either. I'm trying a standard CDROM
> install
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake 8 on low memory machine
>
> Are you trying to do an FTP install?
>
> > David Joham wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck installing Mandrake 8 on a machine with
> > semi-low memory?
> >
> > I've got a Toshiba 435 CDS with 48M (the max) and Mandrake complains
> > that that is not enough to create its install ramdisk. That seems a
> > little odd to me since 48M for an install should be plenty. Also,
> > RedHat 7.1 installs fine on the same machine. Finally, I just
> > installed Mandrake 8 on another laptop with 48M and it worked fine.
> >
> > Is there any way to tell Mandrake in the install to simply go ahead
> > and let me take my chances? What would be different between the two
> > laptops with the same amount of memory?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > David
